Sample script that searches Active Directory for all publisher folders with the keyword finance. The keywords attribute is replicated to the Global Catalog. This means you can connect to a Global Catalog server and search across the forest for all published folders with a specified keyword. Note that this attribute is not automatically populated any time you publish a folder.
On Error Resume Next
Const ADS_SCOPE_SUBTREE = 2
Set objConnection = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
Set objCommand = CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
objConnection.Provider = "ADsDSOObject"
objConnection.Open "Active Directory Provider"
Set objCommand.ActiveConnection = objConnection
objCommand.Properties("Page Size") = 1000
objCommand.Properties("Searchscope") = ADS_SCOPE_SUBTREE
objCommand.CommandText = _
"SELECT Name FROM 'LDAP://dc=fabrikam,dc=com' WHERE objectCategory='volume'" & _
"AND keywords='finance'"
Set objRecordSet = objCommand.Execute
objRecordSet.MoveFirst
Do Until objRecordSet.EOF
Wscript.Echo objRecordSet.Fields("Name").Value
objRecordSet.MoveNext
Loop
On Error Resume Next
Const ADS_SCOPE_SUBTREE = 2
Set objConnection = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
Set objCommand = CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
objConnection.Provider = "ADsDSOObject"
objConnection.Open "Active Directory Provider"
Set objCommand.ActiveConnection = objConnection
objCommand.Properties("Page Size") = 1000
objCommand.Properties("Searchscope") = ADS_SCOPE_SUBTREE
objCommand.CommandText = _
"SELECT Name FROM 'LDAP://dc=fabrikam,dc=com' WHERE objectCategory='volume'" & _
"AND keywords='finance'"
Set objRecordSet = objCommand.Execute
objRecordSet.MoveFirst
Do Until objRecordSet.EOF
Wscript.Echo objRecordSet.Fields("Name").Value
objRecordSet.MoveNext
Loop